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This Freedom by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson
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very earnestly for the wife's recovery and took the opportunity of
praying also that she might be permitted to see the wife "if she
is not very frightening, O Lord, and the husband too, if possible,
for Jesus Christ's sake, amen."

And at lunch, having thought of nothing else all the morning, there
was suddenly shot out of her the question, "Father, is your wife
any better now?"

Rosalie commonly never spoke at all at meals; and as to speaking
to her father, though it is obvious she must have had some sort
of intercourse with him, this famous question (a standing joke in
the house for years) was the single direct speech of those early
years she ever could remember. She spoke to her father when she
was bidden to speak in the form of messages, generally about meals
being ready, or relative to shopping commissions he had been asked
to execute; but he was far too wonderful, powerful and mysterious
for conversation with him on her own initiative. "Father, is your
wife any better now?" stood out in her later recollection, alone
and lonelily startling.

There was from all the company an astounded stare and astounded
gasp; all the table sitting with astounded eyes, forks suspended
in mid-air, mouths half open in astonishment, and Rosalie sitting
in her high chair wonderingly regarding their wonderment. What were
they staring at?

There was then an enormous howl of laughter, led by Rosalie's
father, and repeated, and louder than before, because it was so
very unusual for the family to be laughing in accord with father.
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